Zane Woodford, Author at Halifax Examiner

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A close up of the HRP crest on the sign for the Halifax Regional Police headquarters on Gottingen Street in June 2021.

Policing

Halifax police delaying advocate case review for sexual assault files

by Zane Woodford October 5, 2023October 20, 2023

The board asked for an update on implementing the Violence Against Women Advocate Case Review. It didn’t get it.

A glass building with a white sign reading, Halifax Convention Centre. The 'O' in convention is blue. In the upper right corner, there are green leaves from a tree hanging into the frame. Below the leaves is a man in a black and yellow jacket waiting beside a yellow sign reading, "safer social."

City Hall

Halifax Convention Centre ‘paying for itself’ after year of higher revenues

by Zane Woodford October 3, 2023October 20, 2023

A white man with dark hair and a beard wearing a black suit, striped shirt, pink and black striped tie and glasses speaks into a microphone at a podium. In the background are three Nova Scotia flags, coloured blue, yellow and red.

Mass Casualty Commission, Policing, Province House

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

by Zane Woodford September 29, 2023October 20, 2023

A man in a suit speaks in front of a microphone. Behind him is a Nova Scotia flag and a TV displaying an illustration of a house.

City Hall, Housing

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

by Zane Woodford September 28, 2023October 20, 2023

Two men in suits sit in front of microphones. Behind them is a Canada flag and a Nova Scotia flag, and a TV displaying a message: "More housing faster."

Housing, Province House

Nova Scotia, federal government building more than 200 public housing units

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023October 20, 2023

A rocky outcropping is seen in Halifax Harbour on a sunny day, with the smoke stacks at Tufts Cove and the MacKay and Macdonald bridges in the background.

City Hall

Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023October 20, 2023

A sign is seen in front of a parking lot. It says Madeline Symonds Middle School. In the background is a forest.

City Hall, Education, Fires

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023October 20, 2023

Workers are seen on scaffolding putting siding on the last of a row of similar houses.

City Hall, Housing

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023October 20, 2023

A sign in front of a polling station in Dartmouth on Election Day in Halifax Regional Municipality. The picture is of a street at dusk, and it appears to have recently rained.

City Hall

Halifax councillors consider new campaign financing limits

by Zane Woodford September 26, 2023November 7, 2023

A woman motions on to her left. Behind her is an overpass with a construction site underneath.

Business and Development, City Hall, Transportation

Halifax Transit delays coming as Cogswell project enters second phase

by Zane Woodford September 25, 2023October 20, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.

Author Archives: Zane Woodford

Halifax police delaying advocate case review for sexual assault files

Halifax Convention Centre ‘paying for itself’ after year of higher revenues

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

Nova Scotia, federal government building more than 200 public housing units

Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister

Halifax councillors consider new campaign financing limits

Halifax Transit delays coming as Cogswell project enters second phase

Unions ask Nova Scotians to join day of action for striking Pete’s Frootique workers

Rick Perkins, natural health product champion

CN Railway files lawsuit to stop protesters from setting up blockades in Nova Scotia

Portrait project in Truro to honour Black women educators, church organist

Nova Scotia’s economy was and is deeply entwined with slavery